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When I start up Windows XP, it gets to the desktop and then stops without loading the icons. (It was working fine yesterday.) A couple times when I've restarted, the icons did pop up before the restart. I can get to a few programs using the Task Manager (ctrl+alt+del), but none of the internet programs work (probably because Windows isn't loading to the point where it works). Any ideas what I should try to resolve this?

Okay, I think I found the problem. I restarted in the mode with all the system programs turned off and it came up fine. So I went back and started turning on the programs and restarting (started with one at a time, but then went to 5 at a time). It turned out to be the "DHCP client" program. I have it off and everything else on and the computer starts fine, but it's a program necessary for internet access, so I can't get online now on that computer.

Unfortunately, it didn't work. :( And I don't think they have any techies around for chat today. Someone on Conservative Cave mentioned something about using the XP disk to fix it, but I don't think we got any disks when we got the computer. The drive is partitioned, so I'm wondering if maybe what I need is on there.

Okay, this is weird. I re-enabled the DHCP client and redid that program I got from Gateway, then restarted. It was a slow start up again with the desktop not loading, so I started to go into msconfig again and suddenly the stuff started showing up. I was able to access the internet, too. I don't ever look a gift horse in the mouth, though, so I restarted. Sure enough, the same problem happened. (In hindsight, I probably should've made a backup point.)